R.I.P. The beeper

[Crazy Dave]

Are there some people still using them? I haven't seen any in a while.

Use to love the voice ones. Some dude's pissed off wife or client would call and say all kinds of nasty shit to them while they were standing in a fast food or bank line. I even heard one woman tell the dude she had her shit packed up and was "leaving for Georgia right now you Fucker!!"

[mcctatas]

1. I still use one at work...

only becuase they are afraid the patients will steal our cell phones so we are supposed to leave them in our offices (i just keep mine on vibrate in my bra :P )

[Crazy Dave]

2. You bad girl

You're lucky I don't have the number

bzzzzzzzzz :evilgrin: ;-)

[mcctatas]

4. If I ever decide to keep it in my undies...

I'll give ya the # :evilgrin:

[MineralMan]

8. Now...now...this is getting out of hand.

It gives new meaning to "I'll buzz your pager." Tut...tut...

[MineralMan]

3. I used to listen to a voice pager frequency on my scanner

and it was a hoot. My favorite was a series of voice messages that happened at about 10 minute intervals...all from the same woman. It went like this:

1. "Bill, when are you going to get home this afternoon. I want to have dinner ready."
2. "Bill. Call me when you get a chance. I need to know when you'll be home."
3. "Bill. Is your pager off? Call me.
4. "Uh...are you avoiding me for some reason? Call me."
5. "I guess your pager's off. Shit. Well, I'm going to go ahead and start dinner."
6. "Where the hell are you? You can't even bother to call me. I need to know when you'll be home"
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12. "You worthless piece of shit! The dinner was ready an hour ago and you aren't here. I'm putting it in the garbage you son of a bitch!"
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18. Don't even bother coming home, asshole! Spend the night with that slut if you want to! I'm through!"

[Crazy Dave]

5. ...

:spray: :rofl:

I liked the way one guy tried to macho up around everybody that heard a similar conversation like that once. "Fuck that bitch! I'll call her when I feel like it", "Where's a pay phone?"

[MineralMan]

7. I always had to imagine the other end of the conversation....

There was also some guy who called himself the "Pager Phantom." I don't know exactly how he did it, but he had figured out how to call people's pagers. All day long, you'd hear him. He'd call a voice pager, then say something like "This is the Pager Phantom. Have a nice day." He never was obscene, and from the pager tones, you could tell that he was calling different pagers. Funny as heck.

[foxfeet]

6. After 17 years of being on-call 24/7,

I still jump whenever I hear a pager go off, even though I've been retired for almost two years. The TV show "House" drives me crazy. It's PTSD, I tell ya!

[lukasahero]

10. Yup - there's one particular ring tone

that still makes my hands sweat when I hear it (6 years later) because it used to only go off at 3 am when I was sound asleep. :scared:

[sarcasmo]

9. The Beeper King, he was a character on 30 rock, played Liz Lemon's boyfriend.

That was some funny stuff, he sold beepers out of a briefcase, and had his own store if I remember right, LOL.

[Crazy Dave]

12. Heh...I almost did that once

It was a company that was totally legit too. You paid $400 to get in, they'd send you a shit load of pagers, you'd sell the pagers for $45 which included 60 days service, after that you'd get $5 commission for every month they renewed after that. Just didn't bother with it but I do know one fellow that cashed in big one Christmas season. Not with that company but the one I had service with. He said damn near every parent in town that year was buying beepers for their kids.

[NJmaverick]

11. They are still out there

by boss still loves them. He insists they have much better coverage than any cell phone. So our agency still has them, along with our cell phones.

[Crazy Dave]

14. Always a good idea to have a backup

If necessary. I think the only time my pager went out it was almost like a global event. Can't remember if it was solar eruptions or the satellites all went crazy that day. It was back around '97 and there were commercials the next day with companies saying, "While the rest of the world lost coverage, ours stayed on blah...blah"

[hippywife]

13. I still use one at work, too. n/t